August brought some excellent news of academic achievement at A level and GCSE. There were some very good individual and departmental performances at A level. Twenty-three students achieved 2 or more grade A/A* passes; Matthew Bickerton, Megan Lader and Jonathan Passant topped the list with 4 A/A* passes, closely followed by Daniel Archenhold, Josh Banerjee, Anne Bochmann, Simon Brau, Sarah Cheung, Rachel Gaguin, Bethany McLelland and Gemma Wilson with 3 A*/A passes. Many departments achieved some very good results with History’s 100% A*/B particularly noteworthy.

At GCSE, twenty-eight students have achieved 6 or more passes at the top grades A*/A. Anjali Reddy achieved 10A* passes, closely followed by Joshua Peckett (9A* and 1A) and Hannah Swidrak (8A* and 2A). Other very strong results were achieved by: Sophie Baker, Alice Burkey, Charlotte Falls, Louis Gray, Georgina Illingworth, Patrick Killoran, Hattie Matthews, Larrissa Penny, Molly Smith, Lucy Worstenholme and David Zhang (all 8 or 9 A*/A). Even before the outcome of any re-marks 96% of the year group achieved 5 or more A*- C passes and there will be some very good “value-added” achievements to report when these are published later in the year. Many departments have achieved particularly good results but the achievement in RS of 65% A*/A is quite outstanding.